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i voted for openbox simply because of its versatility and ability to be used to replace other WM's (i know alot of others can do this to) but also because i get a good feeling from openbox.
but enlightenment was close... in the 2007 polls i think ill almost have to vote for E. with the way its going, damn DR17 looks pretty!
Tried many others but speed, functionality and configurability of flux won me over.
I run GRML (about the most underrated and fun to use distro on the planet) and the default implementation of fluxbox is awesome. I can do what I want to do and get where I want to go faster with fluxbox than anything else.
Uh oh, only 60 votes for Window Maker? That's my choice. Like someone said, everything I need and nothing I don't. Easily configurable. Plus it starts super fast. As a OS X user it feels more natural than start-menu clonehorrors, too. Gotta love docking apps! All commonly used programs behind one mouse click, not so often used behind 3-4 and rest can be opened from terminal and then docked at will without any commands.
I plain love it!
Long live NeXT-alikes (although he who has designed Afterstep has been on heavy acid)!
Well, the first linux distribution i used was SUSE 10.0. My computer was quite weak (Celeron 667, 256MB RAM). At first i used KDE, the default one, and it was super slow. Then i later learned about "the many WMs and DEs" in Linux, so i switched to WindowMaker, which was available on my machine. I liked it. But then i later read on the forums that BlackBox was by far the lightest among those WMs, so i switched to Blackbox. First i was not very impressed, but after visiting freshmeat.net and getting some cool themes, i made my computer look awesome!
So, to me, Blackbox has been the best WM so far. I recently switched to some less bloated Linux distros like Slackware, Gentoo, and found out it didnt make much different if i used Fluxbox. Now Im using FreeBSD, which is the fastest OS i've ever seen, and i mainly use Fluxbox.
But by and large, i choose Blackbox, and i voted for it.
Please dont mind if my post doesnt make sense, haha
Beryl is still immature and a bit buggy, but as it grows up it's going to blow everything else out of the water - presuming, of course, that you have the graphical capability to run it.
Beryl is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long, long time.
Yet again, is Window Maker developement halted? It has been 0.92 forever! I got the sources secured but all I can program is a bit BASIC on my TI83. That WM has tremendous potential, it just needs a glossy facelift to appeal to masses and more versatile Dock (as in hidable & adjustable to bottom/up).
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